Does being absolutely terrified that you have it count??
*scared*
*Has already been tested* *does not have*

Its not scary. Its a condition, not a disease. It only hurts you if you don't watch it and dont take care of yourself...

Have you been tested for hypocondria? Its not an offensive question, its just.... you have a lot of fears. Some that seem a little unjustified

@_@;; No, no I have not.
I'm not like...crazy afraid of things.
I dunno.......Do I seem crazy afraid of things?

pregnancy
diabeties
few other things you've mentioned

Pregnancy is me being afraid of commitment and birth defects and autism cuz of my mum.
Diabetes is cuz...its just...horrifically inconvenient and scary.

Type 2 here XD

Type 2. About five years.

Type 1 since birth. but only knew about it 2 years ago.

how the HELL did you manage it for 20 years?!

*frowns* i didnt, thats why i got bladder control problems, massive weight loss, eating a lot and never gaining weight. i was with my husband now that i found out.

Has he looked into at least getting a meter? I am pretty sure he should be able to get one for free. That would probably be the first big step besides going in to see a doctor.

I found out that you need insurance to get them for free but yes we talked about that, walmart has some nice ones

Try and have him look for a free clinic around his area. Sometimes they will have glucose meters which they give out for free. Also I think there are advertisements I have seen on tv through liberty where they will give you a free one. Our insurence sitiuation in this country is a friggen awful when it comes to things like this, in case no one has noticed.

you can also suggest these things to him, hopefuly he's reading all this.

also, family of diabetic or diabetic yourself?

My Grandma was diagnosed with type II a short while ago, but I also know a bit about it through school/training. Hopefully It doesn't strike me later in life.

its not a fcking death sentance and I would really like people to stop treating it as such. /rant not directed at you

Hope I didn't offend, and no it is by no means a death sentance. Just something that needs to be watched and managed.

Can I ask what the difference is between Type One and Type Two? I was never told before~

Type 1 people are usually born with the condition. They do not produce Insulin. Type II usually happens later on through several mechanisms. They do produce some insulin, but due to resistance or progressive inefficiency of the pancreas it is not enough to cause glucose to shift into cells.

part of that is not quite right

Type one is called Juvinile Diabeties because its normaly diagnosed in children under 21 BUT there have been older people diagnosed with it.

I am one of the "lucky ones" that had a virus attack my pancreas and kill that part that produces insulin...


the rest of what you said is correct

lol identical post time with below

Yes sorry didn't mention about that too XP Diabetes is quite complex.

Thankyou =3

 Apocastasis has recently been diagnosed, so I have diabetic cookbooks and recipes like you wouldn't believe. If he likes, I can email aqb52 a really good set of a few hundred diabetic recipes.

hahahah ask him about his dietairy needs/likes, then you can narrow it down hehe

also, mention this journal to Apotcastasis if you like!

I will go and get myself checked! He's in my prayer's and thought's as well.

I'v had Type 2 Diabetus since I was 15, so I've been managing it for 8 years

I don't have it, but I'm at-risk because it runs in my family. He's a definite favorite of mine as well, and my heart and prayers go out to him.

Type 2 for 8 years. I've been lucky so far using diet and some oral meds. Hope your friend is able to do alot with just diet, some can. There's lots of diabetic cookbooks on the market and most of em are good.

if I could assign anyone to be his diabetic buddy, I'd vote you

Oh, and I forgot a meter, though many have said so. Check before each meal and after. Extreme high sugar levels can lead to other, much more serious troubles.

My mom has type 2, and my father has been diagnosed with it recently.

Cut down on Sugars and carbs is the main thing.

Look at the nutrition label and do the serving per carb thing.

Sugar Alcohol and fiber count against the main sugar content and is a good thing.

Exercise more because there have been cases where a better diet and more exercise has lowered the symptoms to where it seems to disappear.

My father has type 2 Diabetes. I check my blood sugar from time to time simply because I have several family members with the disease. If you can hold out until my next paycheck I can donate a little bit of money for the meter. I would also recommend looking into diabetic vitamins and herbal support, which actually can be extremely helpful. In fact Walgreen's carries a vitamin "pack" for diabetes that helps the body to deal with it. Obviously prescriptions are probably the best bet, but vitamins and herbals are the next best thing.

What state does he live it? Can he get Medicaid? Because it might be worth it for him to get it if he can.

It very important to get a meter and use it. That one tool is critical. Type 2 means you still get some function from you pancreas and type 1 is complete dependence on insulin.

hahah I know the type one part... thats me!

SO AGAIN RUSTYBUTT! IF YOU READ THIS< GET A METER!

Low carb eating, don't spike bloodsugar ._.

i has the type1 since 2000....

diet and exercise will always help if weight is a factor, oral medication will help if he can find a competent doc... and NO ALCOHOL, FATTY FOOD OR SWEETS!

may i suggest a free clinic? it's not great for the long run, but fixing the issue early will help prevent organ damage/failure, nerve loss, blindness, and a great number of horrible things.

getting insurance is key. test strips, insulin, needles... i'm a type1 and my insurance pays $80k a year to keep me alive. ...

NEW TREATMENTS!!!:
http://www.xcell-center.com/treatme.....FQEoGgodBBIqnw

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3584090.stm

I've been a diabetic without insurance for 5 years or so... but yeah, free clinics and other places have helped me out...

I'm a diabetic with a sweet tooth so yeah, it doesn't help. but I do treat myself occasionally to little snack sized ones

I have type 2 and the most immediate thing you can do is cut out sugared softdrinks, chips and other junk foods. in fact, the easiest thing to do is stop eating food from the center isles of the grocery store. Stop eating white bread and only eat whole wheat, same with pasta. Stop consuming food with "high fructose corn syrup" as the first ingredient. Eat sweet potatoes! In fact, the skin of a sweet potato contains the ingredient for some diabetes drugs. Cinnamon is a proven aid in lowering blood sugar, it works wonders for me. You can get them in tablet form at the supplement isle in Wal-mart. Also Chromium Percolate is good for sugar balance as well. Get plenty of sleep, research shows a lack of proper sleep can affect insulin resistance. Exercise. Doesn't mean going to the gym 3 times a week so much as washing the car by hand rather than running it through the car wash, raking leaves, walking to the corner store rather than driving, that sort of thing.

Only cure for type two diabeties is gastric bypass surgery, and thats really expensive. And in the states they dont consider it a cure JUST yet, even though in Brittan and other places in the world its the only recognized cure (I think the states are holding back on calling it the cure just so that the pharmaceutical companies can milk the need for insulin more.) But my mom had the bypass done and three days after surgery she no longer had to take insulin and hasn't had to use it in almost a year now. Everyone who has the bypass (that was originally created for overweight people) And that has had T2Diabies has been completely cured and never had to touch it again. The surgery is expensive, however, in the long run, you'll have yourself thousands and thousands of dollars.

...

I have to disagree with you

Disagree with what? o.o Its true. In fact a lot of insurance companies have been approving the bypass for people with diabetes because it IS more cost effective in the long run. That why my mom's insurance company finally approved her for the surgery.

there are people who have cured their type two with diet and excercize. theres no need for surgery right away.
Plus there are many complications that can happen with a g. bypass

he doesn't have insurance. he doesn't really have money for something like that.

Oh belive my I know there are risks.. I had to go through all the classes about it with my mom and she had to pass several tests before they finally cleared her for the surgery. And while you can manage it, it will be a life long thing that can and usually does get progressively worse as you age, despite diet and or excersize.

I suggest he get a job with insurance asap however as that s the only way he can continue to be safe and healthy, surgery or not.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/release.....0305113659.htm

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/m.....ticlekey=95349

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/555171

i,ve got type 2 and a meter is a good thing to have also check into cook books for diabetics i agree with what Kathmandu says and likes been said try finding a free clinic

type 2
gong on 9 years

i found out only after i collapsed at work my leg refused to function it was due to the non healing wound on the underside of my big toe becoming [] this close to being gang green (septic)

since then ive suffered ostiomylitus (bone infection) a lot
the bacteria got into the foot and leg ive lost 1/4 of the foot an have muscle/nerve damage from the bacteria toxins

check your feet for ANY scratch or wound treat it seriously and immediately or it will take you out check your sugars! check them regularly

i got a great bargain on a nice meter its the wave sense presto nice mp3 player sized 1.5 in x 2.5 x .5 clear backlit meter no code strips
meter and 110 strips came out to be $42 bucks (the strips cost meter was free)
http://www.wavesense.info/presto

the strips aren't like the others at near a dollar a strip its more like 50 cents testing can get to be expensive when first diagnosed and doctors want multiple readings in a day to see what sugars are doing

Everyone says I should be checked.....apparently I show alot of symptoms, plus both my father and grandfather died of it (and they weren't even fat, like me). Thing is....and I'm not belittling it by any means...not sure I'd wanna know. Food, especially shitty food, makes me soooooo happy. I'd be depressed as hell.

Still it's scary stuff, definately....no doubt. Serious stuff

serious, not scary ^.^


but yeah, go get yourself checked. Hell... if you look at it the right way, everyone shows signs and symptoms...

also true.

I guess alot of my friends are scared cuz of my family history, and the fact that I just eat constantly like a slob

I actually have physical due in May....my first one since 1995. Kinda scary. I know they'll give me shit right off the bat just cuz I'm like 340lbs. And I hate getting lectures and shit. It's like yah...I get it, but life sucks, whatever.

Goddam, I'm just bitter in my old age (I'll be 29 on 2/17)

dude, I get that speach almost ALL THE TIME I go in, it doesn't matter what I"m going in for...

lots of things I get yelld at

yeah...I supposed there kinda supposed to get up our asses, but still.

At least I'm not paying for it...my insurance covers it

not that i think i can add to this but
NO WHITE BREAD! NO SUGAR!
Umm oatmeal and real cinnamon slow the absorption of sugars
you can get cinnamon caplets from a health food store
Chromium Picolinate is also very good for diabeties
fiber is friend as is cheese fiber slows absorption and cheese is hard to digest so uses a lot of available sugars.
avoid processed sugars and foods as you can
eat many small meals over big ones. eat something small before going to bed. during the fasting time while sleeping soemtimes the liver can get signals of OH NOES THERE BE NO SUGARS. and will make them in abundance. which is why i used to wake up with sugar readings in the 300 range which is way bad.

also do not go crazy like i did and stop eating. that only makes it worse.
dandelion root has phyto insulin and can help with diabeties. (sorry writing it down as i remember things) not great to take with the pills or other insulin but if you have niether it helps. and i had to rely on it for a while when i was moving and ran out of meds entirely and could not get to a doctor.

it will take time to get it under control. being sick or having stress will raise and lower sometimes rather randomly and quickly the blood sugars. Sometimes your pancreas will go gung ho with insulin and sometimes it may say BAH YOU DO NOT NEED MY PRECIOUS FLUIDS and cut you off. i know this keeps happening to me and well it is not good cause then if you are one meds they have to keep redoing them.

diet can help a lot as well as exercise. avoid almost all carbs and sugars. if you cut them out TOTALLY it can backfire. so low carb and some types of sugars like fructose are good for you. ... i cannot really think of anything else that may help. other than exercise and train yourself that sweet is nasty. that helps keep you from eating to much sweet stuff. i know i get sick now from even one cookie or snack cake and it keeps me a bit safer.

lol I eat white bread. I eat sugar

its not no sugar, its decreased sugar


also 4-6 small meals a day, it has kept me the same size since high school, which is a nice size

well you are type one not type two. i am type two. of course i also have a lot of native american in me and we do not do the processed white sugar well but i tolerate corn sugars like a champ!

"avoid almost all carbs and sugars. if you cut them out TOTALLY it can backfire. so low carb and some types of sugars like fructose are good for you. ..." and yeah i mentioned the whole some sugars since the whole cutting off all sugar was quite a bad thing when i did it but then i was discovered with it with a reading of 485 so i kinda panicked hard. especially since i was hypoglycemic for ten years.

Type 2, diagnosed about 5 years back. Basically, I take the meds and modified my diet. Doc says I'm one of the most compliant diabetics she's ever seen...

Still need to lose weight.

Main thing is to cut out the sugar. I used to do 2-3 2 liter bottles of soda a week. Now, my main beverage is unsweetened green tea.

for the no money situation look at local free clinics Give me the city and IO can find some or one that's near enough.

look art amd see how much it will cost for a doctor.
you don't need a dietitian. we are with out insurance and doing fine.
get his heart and circulatory system checked every 6 months to a year. Unless something doesn't feel right because heart attack and clots can come out of nowhere.
look into the Atkins diet because that's really close to an ok Diabetic diet. keep peanut butter on you or close enough encase the sugar drops and the shakes start.

do type 2s get hypoglycemia?

I hide the INSULIN and Needles..
NOPE NOPE NO DIER BEETES HERE
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE .....

no needles no insulin, therefore no diabeties. I LIKE YOUR THEORY!

yea but my blood sugar level is over 200

Where are my chocolate chip cookies

NUUUUUUUUUUU DONT DOOOOOOO ITTTTTTTTTTTT

*pelts you with sugar free life savers, which are surprisingly good*

I dive in "YUMMY..."
Yea but ... I drink water mm good I guzzle a half gallon water "WOW IM Tirsty

FIRSTY!!!! *gluglugluglug*

so you have Dier Beetes too huh :whoa:

I have had type 2 since the sixth grade, its tough, but it makes you stronger in a way... plus it really helped me to realize how many people in my life loved me, and were not willing to let me die. It seems like a lot of people on FA. My dad convinced me to go to OA meetings and my brother (who was diagnosed as well) did his best to keep me motivated and active.

The best thing to do is to get this book and follow the instructions:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Glucose-R.....dp/1569243077/

and take this to the supermarket:
http://www.amazon.com/Glucose-Revol.....dp/1600940374/

Solid science, easy to do, no hunger. Honest to God!!!!

Sorry for the delayed response; I've been away.

So yeah, type 2 diabetes for about 6 months now. I'm on an injectable called Byeeta which kinda sucks cuz I hate needles :P Still kinda new to this and am kinda sucking at coping with it :P